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Gary P. Cohen is the producing director of Plays-in-the-Park, a respected summer theater in New Jersey, where he has directed more than fifty plays and musicals. In the early 1970s he founded a 100-seat semiprofessional theater, where he honed his craft before joining Plays-in-the-Park in the 1980s. He is the author of The Community Theater Handbook (Heinemann, 2003). Cohen has co-authored Off-B'way's Frankenstein, A New Musical and A High School Monster Musical with Mark Baron, as well as The Reluctant Dragon. A former William Morris agent, Cohen has also written and directed three 80's cult shot-on-video horror films: Video Violence Video Violence Il, and Captives, currently on DVD & Blu-ray.
He is an American theater producer and filmmaker known for his long tenure at the Plays-in-the-Park theater in New Jersey and his cult 1980s shot-on-video horror films.
He is recognized for writing and directing low-budget horror features like Video Violence and Captives, as well as directing numerous theatrical musicals and plays.
His film work is primarily associated with the shot-on-video (SOV) horror aesthetic of the 1980s, while his stage work encompasses musicals and community theater productions.
He served as the producing director for Middlesex County's Plays-in-the-Park in Edison, New Jersey.